New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-27
II B. AND MRS. BOWSER.
BY MRS. BOWSER.


money He began IN the most liberal
manner, but ended with the declara-
ton:
See here Mrs. Bowser, this is all
nonsense! We are one. What be-
longs to me belongs to you. This
4 giving you I. certa sum of money
every week makes it appear as if you
were a servant. When you want!
money take it ont Of my wallet. If you
can't find the wallet. just mention the
sum that you want. Z
But. Mr.. BoWser, 49, ''8a s u
No butts about it! You were going
4 to say YOU hated to be obliged to ask
for money!, your own husband
When wife gets as sensitive as that she
should be obliged to go barefooted for
three months in winter u
/ I let the matter drop for a few days,
but one day when | wanted a dollar
to buy some notions I went to MIR.
Bowser's coat, which was hanging on
the hall-tree for the moment, and took
out the family wallet. No, I didn't,
either. It WASH t there. decided to
wait awhile, and that night when Mr..
i BoWser was sound asleep and blowing
his fog horn, I got up to look for his
wallet, Itscouldn't be found. All the
money he had about him was one poor,
i lonesome nickel. I was wondering
whether half of it belonged to me
or not, when the fog horn ceased to
toot and MI. Bowser rose up in bed and
shouted:
''What in blankety blazes are you
doing with my clothes?''
Il wanted the family wallet!''
"Oh! you did! You get up at mid
night to rob your husband, do you?''
But half the money is mine. y
/ Mrs. BoWser, you drop that coat
and jump into this bed as quick as
Heaven will let you, and if I ever catch
! you trying to rob me again I'll apply
for a divorce within an hourr'
! When he thought was asleep he
slipped out Of bed and took the wallet
from under the dresser, where he had
carefully hidden it, and inspect the
contents to see if anything was gone.
had firmly made up my mind never
/ to ask him for cent, but next day he
seemed so good natured that Iventured
to say:
There are several little things I
badly need, and as | am going down
town this afternoon I'd better buy
| them" t5s
Certainly, my love. Will a five DOE"
ooh, yes.
"All right-here it is. If five isn't
enough take ten.''
took five and was just making out
a list of articles which [ proposed to
buy when Mr.sBowser came in with
bill in his hand and said:
Here's the shade tree man after his
pay. You may give me that five and
III give you three silver dollars
An hour later be sent up dollars
worth of Strawberries accompanied bv
a note asking me to pay for them, and
so | got down town with only two dol
lars in my pocket. I made them 90 as
lar as possible, and was rather proud
of my purchases when get home l
had them spread out on the table in the
sitting-room when Mr.. BoWser come
] rushing in with:
''Say! that colored man is through
2leaning up the alley, and can't make
shange with him. Haven't you got
dollar and half of that money?'
.'Why, no!'
''Nor a dollar?''
II haven't a penny left"
''What! Squandered every cent of
that money! That's just as | expected!
l was told when married you that I'd
bring up in the poor house inside of
ten years, an [ begin to believe it was
q true predctionr'
But Mr.. Bowser, you only gave
He was gone before I had finished
She sentence, and during all the eve
aing he hadn't q word to say, I
:hink he felt conscience-stricken, how
aver, for next day he said:
Mrs. BoWser, you have the look of
a child, and you don't know the vii
fainy Of this world any more than a
child seven years old. What [ oject to
is the way these dry goods clerks swim
die you. They take every advantage
of your greeness, and when they cheat
you they rob me-
But have been cheated?''
| .'Haye you! What did you ever buy
that you were not cheated? Mrs.
| BoWser, you are no more fit to walk
/ into dry goods store with a $40 bill
in your purse than our old cat is to
judge of a lawn-mower! After. this T
will do the buying. Is any thing need
ed just now
why, baby ought to have some
new dresses, and we need some table
/ linen
Every well; Til see to it,
/ knew about what would happen.
He slipped off early next morning, and
was home by 10 o'clock with a back
| load of dry goods
Dresses for the baby, The observed, as
he united the package. What do YOU
think of this and this-and this2 Got
ten per cent off on each pattern and
saw to it that the measure was full. =
He held up seven yards of alpaca,
pattern Of green Worsted. a third in
striped summer silk, fourth in second
mourning calico, the fifth and last in
satin, which was as stiff as Brussels
4 carpet.